Y: The Last Man Vol 1

This page contains information about Y: The Last Man (Volume 1) . Y: The Last Man is a comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published under the DC Comics Vertigo imprint. The series centers around the sole surviving male human after the spon

Y: The Last Man is a comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published under the DC Comics Vertigo imprint. The series centers around the sole surviving male human after the spontaneous, simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth.

The series starts in the summer of 2002, when Earth is struck by a pandemic plague of unknown origin. This plague destroyed every mammal with a Y chromosome, including spermatosa and unborn children. Referred to as "gendercide", the plague exterminated 48% of the global population, approximately 2.9 billion men.[1] Two male mammals survived. One was a young man from Brooklyn named Yorick Brown. The other was his pet Capuchin monkey Ampersand.